{"id":66638,"date":"2024-09-09T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T00:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/09\/celebrity-son-of-god-pastor-surrenders-to-philippines-police-after-two-week-manhunt"},"modified":"2024-09-09T19:35:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T10:35:23","slug":"celebrity-son-of-god-pastor-surrenders-to-philippines-police-after-two-week-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66638","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity \u2018son of God\u2019 pastor surrenders in Philippines after two-week manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo Quiboloy, who is also wanted in US on child trafficking charges, hands himself over to police after ultimatum<\/p>\n<p>An influential pastor wanted in the US on child trafficking charges has been arrested in the Philippines, after a 16-day manhunt across a vast compound that included a network of underground tunnels and dozens of buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Apollo Quiboloy, the founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) church, who claims to be the \u201cappointed son of God\u201d and was a spiritual adviser of the former president Rodrigo Duterte,<strong> <\/strong>is facing various charges, including in the US where he is wanted over alleged trafficking of women and girls as young as 12.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/09\/celebrity-son-of-god-pastor-surrenders-to-philippines-police-after-two-week-manhunt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo Quiboloy, who is also wanted in US on child trafficking charges, hands himself over to police after ultimatumAn influential pastor wanted in the US on child trafficking charges has been arrested in the Philippines, after a 16-day manhunt across &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,55,371,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-religion","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66662,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66638\/revisions\/66662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}